A committee’s formal identity and type provide the starting point for reading its filings. A familiar name, an abbreviation or a shared vendor is not enough to establish that two organizations are the same.
Start with the identifier
The FEC assigns a committee identifier that is more reliable for record matching than a display name. Names and addresses can change, while similarly named committees may be distinct organizations. Electionpedia keeps the committee ID with the name so readers can open the official record and compare the precise entity rather than relying on initials or a logo.
A committee type is context
Candidate committees, party committees and political action committees have different reporting contexts. Terms such as independent-expenditure-only committee or joint fundraising committee describe particular arrangements; they should not be treated as interchangeable labels for every organization that participates in politics. Use the source’s classification and consult the agency’s explanation when the distinction matters.
These are reported committee totals—not a measure of who benefited from every dollar. Candidate support and opposition appear separately in itemized spending records, which may cover later dates.
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Registration · not a corporate staff directory
Who is the committee’s reported treasurer?
STAUFFER, PATRICK is the treasurer listed for this political committee in the included FEC registration data.
This is the political committee’s treasurer—not necessarily the treasurer or finance director of an organization with a similar name. This record does not establish a current corporate or public-office appointment.
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through August 31, 2026.
Metric
Reported amount
What it means
Total receipts
$388,733.44
All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions
$0.00
Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions
$0.00
Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements
$12,246,423.72
All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees
$0.00
Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures
$0.00
Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand
$207,139.21
Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee
$0.00
Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.
Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.
Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures
How money moved through DNC TRAVEL ESCROW
FEC ITEMIZED FILES
These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.
Reported operating-expenditure categories
FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.
1 published categories
Category not reported823 current organization-payment rows$12,173,567.44
Top organization payees in operating expenditures
Organization payees only. Electionpedia excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.
Jq Presents LLC2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-01-24
$4,920.00
Liz Hart Strategies Incorporated2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-02-12
$2,176.30
Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.
Registration type, direct contributions, and outside spending are different.
A committee can contribute directly to candidates, make independent expenditures, transfer money, or do some combination permitted by its registration. Electionpedia keeps those categories separate and does not infer support, opposition, coordination, or control from a name alone.
